Emotional Health

Friday February 19, 2016

Most of us are relatively health conscious when it comes to our physical bodies. People are eating better and cleaner foods. More individuals and families turn away from GMOs, gluten, and sugar, and opt for organic, whenever possible. People exercise and consume daily supplements to assist their bodies in recovering from illnesses or to simply sustain health and youthfulness.

Sadly, many of us neglect our emotional, spiritual and mental health, when it comes to the same daily management routine. How many of us meditate or pray daily? Do we watch what we allow into our brains as carefully as we watch our diets for our bodies? How many hours of mindless and mentally numbing, even deadening material do we allow into our brains via television, music and radio? Are the messages that we hear uplifting and positive? Do we sustain life for our feelings and our thoughts? That’s why we provide daily mental vitamins. Commit to reading something positive an uplifting every day. Monitor your consumption of mental and emotional junk food. And follow us on Twitter or Instagram for your daily dose of mental vitamins.

Emotional health is the ability to control emotions and behavior; to be able to handle life’s challenges; recover from trials; and maintain and strengthen relationships. Just like with physical health, effort is required.

Emotional honesty is a requirement for emotional health. Emotional honesty is being honest about one’s true feelings and being vulnerable. Emotional honesty unlocks the power to grow. Vulnerability means that we recognize our genuine feelings like helplessness, fear, loneliness, failure, etc., which are masked by the feeling of anger. Vulnerability is the core of love, belonging, happiness, courage, empathy, and creativity. We have been endowed with a wide range of emotions and we need to learn to use them well.

Emotional prevention: avoid “emotional explosions” – address the issue when it is still small and relatively insignificant instead of waiting until you can’t take it anymore; expression of feelings – it is okay to express how you feel.